From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:00:22 -0800 Received: from u-59-20.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de ([62.180.20.59]:45320 "EHLO u-59-20.karlsruhe.ipdial.viaginterkom.de") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 16:00:02 -0800 Received: (ralf@lappi) by bacchus.dhis.org id ; Fri, 1 Dec 2000 00:59:42 +0100 Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 00:59:42 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Kevin D. Kissell" Cc: Jesse Dyson , Klaus Naumann , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: Indigo2 Kernel Boots!!! Message-ID: <20001201005942.A6172@bacchus.dhis.org> References: <00f601c05ae8$19014500$0deca8c0@Ulysses> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <00f601c05ae8$19014500$0deca8c0@Ulysses>; from kevink@mips.com on Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:10:32PM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 05:10:32PM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > When the init process fires up, it opens /dev/console as the > console output device. A default SGI workstation installation > file system will have /dev/console bound to the major/minor device > node of the graphics display console. If you want to run with a serial > console, you must therefore change this to bind /dev/console > to the serial port. You can do this by doing an explicit mknod, > or by linking to the appropriate serial port device node, > which is usually /dev/ttyS0. Which both are wrong. /dev/console should be a char device major 5, minor 1. There is no need to change this ever except for very old kernels. With 2.2 or 2.4 whenever people change /dev/console's major/minor it's usually painting over some bug. Ralf